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Rusty Cooley


Member

1996- Rusty Cooley - guitars  
1997-2009 Outworld - guitars  
2003-2004 Book Of Reflections - guitar  

Guest musician

2008 All Shall Perish - guitar  
2009 Derek Sherinian - guitars  
2009 Austrian Death Machine - guitar solo  
2009 The Sean Baker Orchestra - guitars  
2010 After The Burial - guitars  
2013 Michael Angelo Batio - guitars  
2014 Rings Of Saturn - guitars  
2015 Ghost Ship Octavius - guitar solo  
2015 George Kollias - guitars  
2015 Alustrium - guitars  
2016 Julian Lehmann - guitars  
2021 ScreamKing - guitars  
2021 Francesco Fareri - guitars  
2022 Karl Sanders - guitars  

Personal information

Born on: 27.04.1970

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Rusty received his first equipment (a Peavey T27 guitar and a Peavey Decade amp) on his fifteenth birthday. From that day on Cooley immersed himself in music, practicing upwards of four hours a day. Rusty took guitar lessons for a while but became dissatisfied with local guitar instructors and decided to become self-taught. He relied on instructional books and videos like Doug Mark's Metal Method.

After only three years of playing he became a guitar teacher at the music store where he had purchased his first guitar.

After high school Rusty went to the local college and studied Music Theory.

Rusty joined Revolution in 1989 and stayed with them until 1993. During his time with Revolution they became a well-known band in Houston, even opening for bands such as Nitro, Badlands, South Gang, and Every Mother's Nightmare.

Rusty formed a short-lived band called Dominion after he left Revolution. The band broke up in 1995. During this time Rusty won the Guitar Master Series and was named "Best Guitarist" in Houston.

Rusty is a member of Outworld, which he formed in 1997. Outworld released its self-titled debut album on November 13th, 2006.

Currently Rusty is endorsed by Dean Guitars, EMG Pickups, Morley pedals, GHS strings, VHT, Rocktron, Eventide and Maxon.

He was previously endorsed by Jackson Guitars and, more recently, Ibanez Guitars.

His Signature Dean Model was released at NAMM in early 2007.

(source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rusty_Cooley)